It's officially spring in the Northern hemisphere, but I still wanted to do a quick catch up on winter, which, for the purposes of this post was January-March.
– So sad to have missed The Cult of Beauty exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, which closes on April 28. It features some truly amazing voices from the beauty arena, including Jill Burke (author of How To Be a Renaissance Woman) and Eszter Magyar (a.k.a. MakeupBrutalism.)
– Also bummed to have missed this exhibition on acrylic nails. Fortunately there's a book available!
– Dame Pat McGrath managed to break the internet with her porcelain doll-like makeup for Maison Margiela's spring 2024 haute couture show.
– There has been much discourse surrounding Sephora being overrun by tweens and their seemingly unquenchable thirst for…skincare?
– Out: "clean girl" makeup. In: the mob wife aesthetic.
– Could this be the oldest lipstick ever found? The jury is still out, but if it is in fact lipstick I'm enamored of the container.
– Don't forget to sign up for early access at the Black Beauty Archive!
– "Can skincare ever exist separately from harmful beauty ideals?" Enjoyed this piece over at Dazed, as I've been asking the same question for years but about makeup.
The random:
In '90s nostalgia, The Matrix and Office Space turned 25, while albums The Downward Spiral and Dookie turned 30.
So many amazing exhibitions in addition to the Cult of Beauty that I probably won't get to see: unicorns at the Perth Museum in Scotland, cute overload at Somerset House, bows at the museum at FIT, Barbie at the Design Museum, and Biba at the Fashion and Textile Museum – was dying reading this interview with brand founder Barbara Hulanicki about the makeup!
How are you? Are you glad winter's done?